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He confirmed the Conservators were monitoring the situation, and would be consulting with the university boat club.

He said: “It’s a recognised issue, particularly by the university.

“If you’re travelling through on a boat and you want to go fill up with water it’s frustrating, but it’s the same as driving, sometimes you’re going to get delayed.

“One person told me they got delayed because of that for about an hour.”

The video was shot from the Green Dragon Bridge- which usually provides a much calmer view of the Cam! (Photo: David Johnson)

Currently all college rowing teams hoping to qualify for the annual ‘Bumps’ contest need to rack up a certain number of hours of training on the river, with many choosing to do so first thing in the morning.

Mr Ramsay said: “It is an issue we are looking at, but it’s hard to know what we can do. It will come up again, next time I meet with the Cambridge University Boat Club we will discuss it.

“It’s not inherently a bad thing that rowing is so popular and the river is so well-used, it’s just a question of trying to find a balance of having it well-used and over-used.

“It’s only short periods, if you come along later in the day it would be completely different.”